International+Day+of+the+Midwife+2009

=Virtual International Day of the Midwife 2009 = Here is the program of online events and activities that celebrated [|International Day of the Midwife 2009] on May 5th. You can view resources and recordings of live sessions by clicking on the relevant links.

**How to watch the recordings of the live Elluminate sessions**
The Elluminate meeting room is sponsored by Otago Polytechnic. To watch the Elluminate recordings, you will need to [|download Java] on to your computer. [|Here are instructions] on how to play the recordings.





 Disclaimer: The views presented by speakers are not necessarily those of the School of Midwifery, Otago Polytechnic.

=Program =  marysidy(at)hotmail.com || Recording: [] || Recording: [] ||  ddavis(at)tekotago.ac.nz || Elective Cesarean Section, Patient Demand Cesarean and Cesarean Section on Demand all refer to the growing phenomenon of women requesting cesarean section to avoid giving birth vaginally. This presentation will look at this issue from an ethical perspective and offer a feminist analysis of the issue. Recording: [] || [|http://animoto.com/play/ LFU8Y5yntjaulrxf3JdRCA] || 16.00 || [|Here] ||  || [|http://animoto.com/play/ LFU8Y5yntjaulrxf3JdRCA] Watch the video and leave a comment. What are your thoughts after watching the video? Do those images depict what midwifery and motherhood is about? Finally, have a go at making your own Animoto video. || [|http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=w6fRxfDEoRU] || 17.00 || [|Here] || Sarah Stewart sarahstewart07(at)gmail.com  or <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Deborah Davis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ddavis(at)gmail.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> for more details about the project || [|http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=w6fRxfDEoRU] Listen to midwives including Maralyn Fourer, Nicky Leap, Caroline Homer, Deborah Davis and Sarah Stewart talk about the effect of the environment on birth, and how that can be explored in a virtual simulation such as Second Life. || Recording: [] || [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> sarahstewart07(at)gmail.com || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presentation by Ans Luyben. Recording: [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Midwives within social media, use of alternative means of delivering childbirth education & reaching young mums || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">22.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pam Harnden: pam.harnden@gmail.com || [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> sarahstewart07(at)gmail.com || Recording: [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Atf Gheriss <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> atfgherissi(at)yahoo.fr || Recording: [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> e.clarke@coventry.ac.uk || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pauline Costins <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://infomidwife.blogspot.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> infomidwife.paulinerose@gmail.com || Recording: [] || [|http://acnm-midwives.blogspot.com] [] || Go to [|www.wordle.net] and create word collages about midwifery. I posted mine ([]) on Midwife Connection (the ACNM blog, [|www.midwife.org/blog]). Feel free to leave a link to yours in the comment section. Here is the [|Wordle] made from the program of the virtual IDM 2009 by Sarah Stewart. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">03.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Sarahstewart07@gmail.com || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Listen to the **slidecast**, think about the questions that are asked, and answer in the comment section below the slideshow - join in the conversation - why did you become a midwife, what are the best aspects of the role and what challenges do you face? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> sarahstewart07@gmail.com || Recording: [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> mavis.schorn@vanderbilt.edu ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> daviesl@cpit.ac.nz || **Recording:** [] || [|fha loans minneapolis mn] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Activity** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**New Zealand Time** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**World Time** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Contact/Facilitator** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Instructions** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Mary Sidebottom**: How to move the bed: Changing the culture of the labour ward || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May 5th 12.00 hours || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mary Sidebottom:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Deborah Davis** come & network, & learn more about how SL is being used in midwifery education. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deb Davis: ddavis(at)tekotago.ac.nz || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Te Wāhi Whānau/ The Birth Place" [] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Anna Hughes**. Sustainable parenting: I will be basing in my latest post [|http://annahughes.blogspot. com/2009/04/sustainability- and-midwifery.html]. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anna Hughes, Lecturer, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Manavi Handa** (Toronto). The Ethics of Cesarean Section on Demand - a Global Perspective || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deb Davis:
 * Midwives and motherhood seen through the lens. **Animoto** video of images from [|Flickr]:
 * **[|SLENZ]**. Using Second Life to explore the issues of birth environment - a video that explains how <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Te Wāhi Whānau/ The Birth Place" has been developed as part of a midwifery education research project.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Carolyn McIntosh**. Discussion about the new undergraduate blended learning programme for midwifery education in the South Island of New Zealand || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">18.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Carolyn McIntosh || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A brief presentation describing the new blended learning undergraduate midwifery education programme followed by an opportunity for questions and general discussion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Sarah Stewart and** **Marianne Haueter**. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conversation about midwifery in New Zealand and Switzerland. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart: sarahstewart07(at)gmail.com || Recording: [] ||
 * **Jean Patterson**. Decision making in rural maternity care. PowerPoint presentation in Slideshare: [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || [|Jean Patterson] || Please contact [|Jean Patterson] if you would like more information about her research and work in rural maternity care.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tim Johnson.** UK Nurse and Midwife Education Group in Second Life || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20.30 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Tim" Johnson k.johnson@worc.ac.uk || [] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Ans Luyben**. Women's views of antenatal care in three European countries, some results & implications || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Pam Harnden**. Twitter catch up.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Dr Rafat Jan**: Midwifery and Pakistan || 22.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Atf Gheriss**. From the Traditional Birth Attendant to the Midwifery student in Tunisia: an evolutive professional identity || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">23.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart sarahstewart07(at)gmail.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Elinor Clarke**. Centre for Interprofessional e-learning (CIPeL) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">24.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elinor Clarke:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Pauline Costins**. Cyber-talk the legal and ethical implications of blogging and midwifery talk. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May 6th 01.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The **American College of Nurse-Midwives**: Using **Wordle** to show what midwifery is all about. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">02.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melissa Garvey
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What does being a midwife mean to you? This is the question asked by Robyne, a first year midwifery student in Adelaide, Australia, and one midwife's reply:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Lisa Hanson**. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ten years experience with hybrid online nurse-midwifery education in the USA. Full abstract [|here]. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">04.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Mavis Schorn**. Third stage of labor management - discussion of active versus physiologic management. What do you do? Why? How do you decide? Goal is for discussion rather than lengthy presentation. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">05.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mavis Schorn
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Lorna Davies**. A Carbon Footprint Model of Excellence? Midwifery & Sustainability || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">06.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lorna Davies
 * Why mums matter: [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">07.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] ||  || []
 * Eleni Hadjigeorgiou. Medicalisation of childbirth in Cyprus: [] || 07.00 || [|Here] ||  || Slideshare presentation by Eleni Hadjigeorgiou.

[] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Maggie Traoré/Drissa Ouédraogo, Alliance du Ruban Blanc/Burkina Faso. Film/Débat: "Avec Nous" – Pourquoi les femmes meurent-elles en voulant donner la vie? La maternité au moindre risque: chacun sa rôle a jouer. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">08.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deborah Davis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ddavis(at)tekotago.ac.nz || Unfortunately, a technology problem meant that this session did not go ahead. || [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">09.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || Sarah Stewart || [] If you have any problems getting the presentation to ove, just keep clicking the 'play' button on the right at te bottom. Prezi takes a little time to get the hang of, but makes a nice change to PowerPoint for presentations. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ddavis(at)tekotago.ac.nz || **Recording:** [] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> **Maggie Traoré/Drissa Ouédraogo,** White Ribbon Alliance/Burkina Faso. Film/Discussion: "Avec Nous" – Why do women die giving birth? Safe Motherhood: everyone has a part to play.
 * **Sarah Stewart**. How midwives can use the Internet to network and collaborate in the wider international midwifery community - a short **Prezi** presentation:
 * <span class="go" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Bob Green**. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">East Carolina University College of Nursing (ECU CON), Greenville, North Carolina, U.S. will host a Second Life in-world roundtable discussion focusing on technology projects and community outreach initiatives. Full abstract [|here]. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span class="go" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bob Green: GREEN(at)ecu.edu || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meet at "Te Wāhi Whānau/ The Birth Place" [] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Deborah Davis**. Case-loading Midwifery in New Zealand: Bridging the normal/abnormal divide "with woman"[|. Abstract] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11.00 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deborah Davis

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to get more information
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you would like information about the resources or how to use the technology, please contact the organisers of the event:

[|Sarah Stewart]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Email: sarahstewart07@gmail.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web site: [|http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Skype]: sarah.m.stewart
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Twitter: [|SarahStewart]

[|Deborah Davis]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Email: ddavis@tekotago.ac.nz

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Getting your feedback
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We would love to hear your views and feedback about this virtual event, so please either contact us or complete [|this feedback form]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**How to use Second Life**
= = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is information and resources that will help you set up your avatar in Second Life and become familiar with SL.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is Second Life and how can it be used on health care practice and education: [].
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Quick Start Guide]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to get started and use controls: [|SL Intro]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Second Life Tops and Tools]
 * [|Newbie Woman's SL Survival Kit]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Information for newbies from JoKaydia.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**[|Finding your way around Second Life]** - comments on SLURLS

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Here are some places to visit in Second Life that will help your orientation to Second Life.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> UK Virtual Hospital in London. It is a step by step guide on how to use the different keyboard controls: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/UK Virtual Hospital/113/115/24]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">New Media Consortium. This is a great place to go after a little practice at the UK Virtual Hospital: [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/NMC Orientation/109/113/39]

You can also visit East Carolina University's College of Nursing IDoM Tent at [].

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Second Life Names
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Once you have your avatar, please add your name to the table below so that others can easily contact you in SL.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Name** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Second Life Name** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sarah Stewart, Second Life Education New Zealand || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Petal Stransky ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deborah Davis, Otago Polytechic, New Zealand || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aastra Apfelbaum ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bob Green, East Carolina University College of Nursing || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shorty McCullough ||